Don’t let the name fool you. This technique isn’t illegal or ethically dubious in any way (although there are more dubious variants of it). Parasite hosting gets its name from the fact that you are putting your content on to other people’s sites and using the authority (and PR) of their site to help you rank for the target keyphrase. The authority of the domain also lets you convert low quality backlinks into solid rankings without having to worry so much about getting dropped from the SERPS (although it still happens so don’t beat yourself up if/when you lose some of these rankings).

Continue reading »